Ludovici bruni poetae laureati carmen sapphicu[m] ad age[n]das deo gratias in adventu illustrissimi domini Maximiliam ducis austriae noviq[ue] burgundie ducis [et]c.

Accession number: 
PML 48179
Author: 
Brunus, Ludovicus.
Published: 
Lovaniensi impressi : Joannes de Westfalia Paderbornensis dyocesis, Anno domini Millesimo.cccc.lxxvii. Mense Novembri [November 1477]
Description: 
[16] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1956.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf b7v: Ad illustrissimi principis ducis Austriae Burgundiae [et]c. sueq[ue] conthoralis honorem. ac omniu[m] poeticae ceteraru[m]q[ue] humanarum artium studiosorum ellectamentu[m] Ego Joannes de westfalia Paderborne[n]sis dyocesis opusculu[m] iustud in florentissima universitate lovaniensi impressi feliciter. Anno d[omi]ni Millesimo.cccc.lxxvii. Mense Nove[m]bri.
Printed in Johann of Paderborn's type 1B**:89/90G.
Signatures: a-b⁸: 16 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Leaf a3 signed a2.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Printer is also referred to as Johann de Paderborn.
Woodcut of a man in profile with a laurel wreath, leaf b8v. Austria NB copy without woodcut.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18 x 13 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).

Binding: 
19th-century quarter green calf, with green paper sides, over paper boards (19 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.
Variant Title: 

Carmina gratulatoria in adventu et coniugio Maximiliani

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (only 1 initial, leaf a2r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
[Perhaps this copy part of a Sammelband sold in Payne & Foss, Cat. of Manuscripts, of Books Printed on Vellum, of Editiones Principes et Aldinae (Feb. 1930), no. 400;] J.G. (Jean Gérard) Smolderen (1773-1854), signature, perhaps given to Serrure (front fly leaf verso), his sale, Antwerp, 3 Sept. 1855; C.P. (Constant-Phillipe) Serrure (1805-1872), signature (front fly leaf verso); Engelbert-Auguste, duc d'Arenberg (1824-1875), no. 1067 (blue spine label), inventory codes AA,6 (first fly leaf verso), and bibliographic notes (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from William Schab, Nov. 1956.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Quarter bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books